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In Sleep No More, Greg returns to the territory of some of his best-loved works, the steamy and hypnotic small-town Mississippi where Greg himself spent his childhood. In this new novel, John Waters is a man happy with his lot in life: genuine satisfaction with his growing business, contentment with the ease of family routines, and the small pleasures of watching his daughter bloom. But this happiness is hard won, and may be less stable that he would like to believe. Years earlier Waters escaped an obsessive love affair with the ravishing but disturbed Mallory Candler, a love which he feared might consume him. Mallory disappeared after Waters married, and later he heard that she had been killed in New Orleans. But now he has the uneasy feeling that the secrets they shared have resurfaced to trouble him—and to entice him—once again. A woman he meets
casually stuns him with a smile, and whispers words Waters thought long
forgotten. But before he
can find out how this stranger is connected to his past, an act of
brutal violence interrupts them and sweeps him up
in a whirlwind of guilt and suspicion, revealing the shadow sides
of love and friendship—and the terror that can result when passion
becomes obsession.
“Greg
Iles’s new novel, SLEEP NO MORE should come with a red wrapper marked
DANGER, HIGH EXPLOSIVES. It
is that rarity, a thriller that really thrills . You'll find yourself
afraid to turn off the light after seven chapters, and after eleven, you
may find yourself wondering if the person lying next to you when you do
darken the room is someone you really know or a dangerous stranger. This
one gets under your skin, and then burrows deep.
Imagine what Rebecca might have been if it had been written by a
man. That will give you the idea of how successful this novel is.”
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